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Introduction of the high performance turboprop PC-9 into the RAAF has enabled a complete rethink in traditional ADF pilot training procedures with the result that the Macchi has been entirely taken out of the training loop with the CT-4 (or civilian equivalent) being used solely for flight screening duties. (Defence PR)
RAAF Introduces New Pilot Training Scheme
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Haaf Flight Training – The New Look
The RAAF is on the threshold of what can only be described as a fundamental structural change in its pilot training scheme.
Central to the new philosophy is the use of the turboprop PC-9 as the principal training aircraft, and the adoption of civilian contractors to carry out initial aptitude screening. While the full benefits of the new approach remain to be demonstrated, it is clear at this time that the RAAF will enjoy a much higher standard of candidates for actual flight training which will result in a lower washout rate while still retaining the RAAF’s high standard of graduate. In this fashion the resources applied to flight training will be utilised far more efficiently, as the expense of training candidates who will fail is minimized.
The RAAF’s recruiting and training mechanism is in many ways different from any of its civilian counterparts. This is for some very good reasons, all of which revolve about the fundamentally different environment within which military pilots must function.
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